Blue Carpet Conifer

Striking needle like blue grey evergreen foliage is aromatic and fresh and its prostrate habit makes blue carpet particularly well suited to cascade or semi cascade styles.

Blue carpet conifer.

It will easily cover an area of 2m and is quite a fast grower. Jumiperus squamata blue carpet is a low growing shrub with attractive prickly silver blue foliage. A low growing prostrate conifer with needles of blue green foliage forming a dense mat like groundcover. Carpet acknowledges the plant s low spreading form and might suggest its adaptable nature it tolerates dry soils.

Genus juniperus can be prostrate or erect evergreen shrubs or trees with aromatic scale like or sharply pointed awl shaped leaves and small globose fruits details blue carpet is an evergreen conifer making a prostrate shrub 2m or more in spread. It needs to be in an open and sunny or a. Even squamata refers to the scaly bark typical of the species. A good ground covering plant it will form a dense mat of foliage.

Blue points to the color of the sharp overlapping densely arranged needles. Juniperus squamata blue carpet juniperus squamata blue carpet a fast growing ground cover with bright steel blue foliage. Juniperus squamata blue carpet is no longer available. A hardy groundcover that can handle frosts pollution and.

Foliage needle like bright blue grey. Juniperus squamata blue carpet almost says it all. It is a very low maintenance prostrate conifer. A wonderful evergreen conifer for ground cover with blue green foliage.

It s just superb for ground cover on flat areas or gentle slopes and is easy to grow in any well drained soil. Juniperus squamata blue carpet or blue carpet juniper is a tough easy to grow blue conifer ground cover which will grow just about anywhere. The needles turn a bronze purple in winter cold climates only. This spreading conifer will grow to just 0 25 x 2 5 metres in 20 years so is ideal for small spaces.

With a 10 year height spread of around 20cm x 1 5 2m if you have a difficult ugly area to deal with try these en mass to cover it. It has received the rhs award of garden merit for the qualities which make it a great choice for uk gardeners.